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The COP21 that meet in Paris this December will discuss new agreements between countries for regulating activities that are detrimental to the global environment. Cities, because they organize in systems of cities are the best tool (that was invented long ago by societies) for solving environmental problems: first by circulating in a top-down way the international and national directives, second by sharing bottom-up ingenious local inventions to reduce pollution and save resource. This should no longer be conceived as a competition between cities for being considered as “the smarter” but as a collective challenge for territorial intelligence through interurban emulation. That message was presented last September in a conference at a meeting organized in Versailles by ESRI France that you can find here.

What is GeoDiverCity?

Cities are becoming the habitat of more and more people in the world. All cities are connected by a multitude of networks that make their evolutions becoming more and more interdependent. Our aim is to provide medium-term forecasts of the way in which the urban systems of different continents will evolve, and to explore scenarios whereby these city systems might adapt to the global changes they contribute to shape.
This research programme sets out to gather the main stylised facts making up our knowledge about the dynamics of complex urban systems that has been acquired from observation and different analytical modelling processes, and to use them in new simulation models so as to reconstruct the interaction networks making up these systems. These models will be validated using a multi-scale procedure based on temporal geo-referenced data bases and a new interactive simulation platform.